Have you heard of this?

[Always Free]

I was listening to the radio a while back and two people were having a discussion. I can't remember how it starts but they were talking about how someone buys a book and reads it then leaves the book on a train or bus or wherever. Some one comes along and finds the book and reads it then leaves the book in some other location for someone else to find and read--and so it goes on. This was to take place all over the world.

I think it's a great idea.

[arcticpenguin]

Did they mention anything about someone loaning a book to a girlfriend, then getting dumped by said girlfriend who never returns the book?

[ManfredVonRichthoffen]

I would never pick up a book I found and read it. How can you be assured that the last hundred people who did the same hadn't taken it into the bathroom?

[Tanja]

I once left a book on the train, but not because I wanted more people to read it, it was because it was so appalingly bad I did not bother taking it with me.

I am not sure if I could let go of a book I actually like.

It was some sort of detective story, where the detective's cat helps the detective or where the cat IS the detective, I managed to repress the contents in my memory completely.

[Mr Manifesto]

Originally posted by ManfredVonRichthoffen
I would never pick up a book I found and read it. How can you be assured that the last hundred people who did the same hadn't taken it into the bathroom?

Do you borrow books from the library? My girlf is a librarian. One of the worst parts of her job is taking toilet paper bookmarks out of books.

Well... Actually, the worst parts of her jobs involve faeces, vomit, junkies, and insane women with dogs, but they don't tend to have much to do with books, just the public-building nature of libraries.

[ManfredVonRichthoffen]

Originally posted by Mr Manifesto


Do you borrow books from the library? My girlf is a librarian. One of the worst parts of her job is taking toilet paper bookmarks out of books.

Well... Actually, the worst parts of her jobs involve faeces, vomit, junkies, and insane women with dogs, but they don't tend to have much to do with books, just the public-building nature of libraries. I don't even go to the library. I went recently to see if they had a decent video collection, but they didn't. Other than that, I hadn't been since I was a kid. I found it quite a depressing environment.

I prefer to do my reading at the bookstore. They have coffee, tables to read at, and sensors to prevent people from bringing books into the bathroom. I've sat and read a whole book there.

[LibraryFox]

Originally posted by Mr Manifesto


Do you borrow books from the library? My girlf is a librarian. One of the worst parts of her job is taking toilet paper bookmarks out of books.

Well... Actually, the worst parts of her jobs involve faeces, vomit, junkies, and insane women with dogs, but they don't tend to have much to do with books, just the public-building nature of libraries.

For all that needs to be known on that...
http://www.librarianavengers.org/

-LF

[zakur]

http://www.bookcrossing.com/

[Glory]

Originally posted by Always Free
I was listening to the radio a while back and two people were having a discussion. I can't remember how it starts but they were talking about how someone buys a book and reads it then leaves the book on a train or bus or wherever. Some one comes along and finds the book and reads it then leaves the book in some other location for someone else to find and read--and so it goes on. This was to take place all over the world.

I think it's a great idea.

I read about this in a magazine. I did once leave a book of which I had two mass market paperback copies in the waiting area of the DMV. If there was ever a place where people need books. I was amazed at how few people had brougt anything to read.

I am not terrified at the notion of books having been in the bathroom any more than I am the notion of people having been in there.

Glory

[Glory]

Originally posted by zakur
http://www.bookcrossing.com/

Very cool.

Glory